Agricultural Value Chain

The current agricultural value chains relevant to rice-based communities in the Tonle Sap Region have evolved to suit conventional production practices and climatic patterns. These value chains do not account for climate change, typically lack climate-adaptive technologies, and are generally not sufficiently robust to respond to further changes in the climate. Although the various value chain actors are aware of climatic trends, they are usually unaware of specific actions, investments, or approaches that would be efficiently implemented, and contribute to improved climate resilience. 

The PCRL project aims to increase the climate resilience of vulnerable smallholders within rice-based communities facing increasing climate impacts. The project aims to improve their livelihoods through income-generation and value-adding activities by enabling the environment and promoting climate-resilient on-farm practices to improve the resilience, efficiency, and profitability of the rice value chain. The project promotes a market-based approach to improve climate resilience through engagement with the local private sector and enhance the adaptive capacities and livelihood of the target communities through the development of agribusiness skills, whilst also strengthening market linkages to capture the value and avail of other demand-driven incentives for sustainable production.